Tokyo, July 9.
While members of the newly: formed Cabinet to-day took over their respective functions from their predecessors, well-informed—abservers saw perilous breakers lying in the path of the new government in the form of problems left behind by the outgoing Saito administration.
Held as most important among these was the question of restoring public confidence in the integrity of the governing classes.
The preceding Saito Cabinet, which had embarked on a policy of Hightening-up official discipline, was forced to resign because, of graft in Jone of its most-closely supervised departments, the Ministry Finance. To recoup this lost prestige, the Okada Government will have pursue a fair and enlightened administration, exercising stricter discipline among public servants has fly this end well Admiral Okada, they point out,
view, "Judging from his careful selection of the members of his tabinet, which he carried. through even at the risk of incurring the displeasure of the Seiyukai,, ma-ferity party In the Diet.
Meanwhile, it become apparent that, in foreign and military affairs, the new Cabinet would follow the policies of its predecessor.
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